After both having extra time off, the Millbrook Wildcats and the Apex Friendship Patriots will shake off the cobwebs and hit the court against one another at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Millbrook is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last five games.
Millbrook is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of North Carolina's top teams: Riverside-Durham, who was ranked 13th at the time (Millbrook was ranked 17th). The Wildcats sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 win over the Pirates last Wednesday.
Millbrook had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first two sets, they turned around to win the next three. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 14-25, 24-26, 25-14, 25-19, 15-12.
Meanwhile, Apex Friendship came up short against Seaforth two weeks ago, falling 3-0.
Apex Friendship was held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the third set very close. The final score came out to 25-14, 25-7, 25-23.
Apex Friendship's defeat dropped their record down to 0-2. As for Millbrook, their victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 5-1.
Millbrook skirted past Apex Friendship 3-2 in their previous meeting back in March of 2024. Will the Wildcats repeat their success, or do the Patriots have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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